General Berthelot (''Fărcădinul de Jos'' until 1923, ''Berthelot'' between 1923 and 1964, ''Unirea'' between 1965 and 2001; hu, Alsófarkadin; german: Unterwolfsdorf) is a commune in

Hunedoara County Hunedoara County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion. Name In Hungarian, it is known as , in German as , and in Slovak ...

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, a ...

. It is composed of five villages: Crăguiș (''Kraguis''), Fărcădin (''Felsőfarkadin''), General Berthelot, Livezi (''Gauricsa'') and Tuștea (''Tustya''). In 1923 and again in 2001, the commune was named after

Henri Mathias Berthelot Henri Mathias Berthelot (7 December 1861 – 29 January 1931) was a French general during World War I. He held an important staff position under Joseph Joffre, the French commander-in-chief, at the First Battle of the Marne, before later commandi ...

- who was rewarded by King Ferdinand for his role during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

with properties in the village confiscated from the Nopcsa family.

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Communes in Hunedoara County Localities in Transylvania Țara Hațegului {{Hunedoara-geo-stub